RAVENNA NIGHTMARE FILM FEST XVIII EDITION
From October 31 to November 8 on MYmovies.it
All the Festival films at 9,90€
Ravenna, 8 October 2020. The virtual press conference for the presentation of the 18th edition of the Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest, which marks the prelude to the new Online Edition of the Festival, has ended. The RNFF is renewed, but remains faithful to its origins, with a new edition full of guests and events, streaming online from 31 October to 8 November on MyMovies.it. Present as conference speakers: Franco Calandrini, artistic director of the festival, Elsa Signorino, Asessora alla Cultura of the municipality of Ravenna, Martina Porziani, editor of MYmovies.it, Silvia Moras, programmer and head of the Feature Film Competition, Valentina Scentoni, general organization Ravenna Nightmare, Davide Zanza, member of the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission and Marco del Bene, founder and president of ASCIG - Association for cultural exchanges between Italy and Japan.
The dark side of movies is the main road that the Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest has chosen to take. Hence the rebirth that in a short time led the festival to have a wider audience following and a continuity of international guests such as David Lynch, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Liliana Cavani and Jean Jacques Annaud. The relevance of the Festival is given nationally and internationally by the caliber of the guests, but also by the works presented at the festival, both in the competitions and in the parallel sections. All the works of the competition are unreleased in Italy and a large percentage is also unpublished at European level. The ability to create synergies and common projects with other regional, national and international realities is part of the very vocation of the Festival. In the same way, the relationships with European and international distributors allow us to propose works of the highest level both in competition and in other sections.
Marco Bellocchio Guest of Honor of the XVIII edition. This year the Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest poster portrays the face of Marco Bellocchio, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, as well as president of the Cineteca di Bologna. The director, with his militant, nonconformist and revolutionary character, has always recounted the crudest and most controversial episodes in Italian history, revealing the most gory and unsettling backgrounds, to achieve a unique artistic and political sincerity. The director's most enigmatic and mysterious film will be screened: Blood of my blood, winner of the FIPRESCI award from international critics, at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. Unconstrained and elusive, Blood of my blood is a film that addresses the history and biography of its author through a free declination, a reworking of the narrative material detached from any adherence or fidelity.
The Medal of Honour Award to the Manetti Bros. The festival also awards the Medal of Honour Award in collaboration with the Mosaic Artist Dusciana Bravura to directors who have contributed to the research and experimentation of storytelling by entering new and original paths. The award this year will be awarded to Manetti Bros., directors and innovators who have contributed to the renewal of Italian cinema. The two Roman brothers who grew up between comics and B movies - in a bizarre mash-up between the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino - made innovation their trademark, remaining faithful to their imagery while spanning genres. This dichotomy between continuity and discontinuity makes their production unique and immediately recognizable. Their iconic sci-fi thriller The Arrival of Wang will be screened, in which the two brothers bravely reinterpret the genre, building suspense through a tight three-voice interrogation that culminates in an incredible twist.
International Feature Film Competition. The competition will involve 7 fictional feature films, unreleased in Italy, attributable to the dark side of cinema to be understood in its broadest and most varied meaning. The audience jury, made up of spectators who will be able to vote directly on MYmovies.it, will award the Golden Ring Award for Best Feature Film created by the Goldsmith Master Marco Gerbella to the film that has obtained the highest vote. All the films will be introduced by the artistic consultant Silvia Moras.
Since 2017, another important award for feature films has also been established: the Critics' Award, awarded by a jury made up of directors, journalists and film critics. This year the Ravenna Nightmare jury is made up of a shortlist of special guests: Luca Infascelli, screenwriter of Lasciami andare and Brutti e Cattivi; Boris Sollazzo, journalist for Ciak and Rolling Stone, radio speaker for Radio24 and Radio Rock, as well as artistic director of various festivals; Pedro Armocida, artistic director of the Pesaro Film Festival and film critic at the Giornale, Ciak and FilmTv; Paolo Nizza, Sky journalist and author of the television column Mister Paura on Sky Cinema; Emanuele Sacchi and Simone Soranna.
International Short Film Competition. The dark side of cinema in short format: the International Short Film Competition will see 9 works compete, unreleased in Italy, chosen from a shortlist of over 900 works from 77 countries. The Festival thus confirms the collaboration with the Circolo Dogni Antonio Ricci of Ravenna, with which a deep artistic and cultural bond has developed over the years. The audience jury, made up of spectators who will be able to vote directly on MYmovies.it, will award the film with the highest vote a Prize of € 1,000 and the Silver Ring for Best Short Film created by the Goldsmith Marco Gerbella.
Contemporanea. New protagonists and well-known faces populate Contemporanea, the section that discovers and enhances the dark side of modern cinema, cured by Festival programmer and artistic consultant Mariangela Sansone. Among the new faces Andrej A. Tarkovskij, the son of the famous director, will present his intimate homage to his father at the festival: Andrej Tarkovskij - A cinema prayer, a biographical documentary that explains the poetics of the great filmmaker. Donato Sansone, the pulp director who will present his most famous shorts at the Festival, is also highly anticipated. Among the well-known faces, instead, Bertrand Mandico returns, who, after winning the critics' award in the last edition, offers a new suggestive work: The Return of Tragedy, renewing his creepy and gender fluid aesthetic. Finally, among the most interesting pearls of this edition, two unmissable short films: Nimic, the new short by the Oscar-nominated director, Yorgos Lanthimos, author of masterpieces such as The Lobster, The Favourite and Dogtooth, and The Fall, the latest work by Jonathan Glazer, highly acclaimed for his revealing Under the Skin.
Ottobre Giapponese. The historic section was born from the collaboration with A.S.C.I.G - Association for Cultural Exchanges between Italy and Japan with the aim of promoting independent Japanese cinema thanks to numerous international previews. This year the section's program will feature the works of Oscar nominee Koji Yamamura, one of the world's most famous independent director and animator, and the documentary Mishima: The last debate by Keisuke Toyoshima.
Showcase Emilia-Romagna. The Showcase Emilia-Romagna section, created to enhance the films produced in the Emilia-Romagna region, in collaboration with the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission, will have the honor of presenting The Sky Over Kibera, a new film by the theater director Marco Martinelli, Bitter Years, Andrea Adriatico's intimate and powerful homage to Mario Mieli, and Ascoltati, Andrea Recchia's desperate and sci-fi family drama.
Celebrazioni and Halloween Special. Finally, Celebrazioni (Celebrations) is born this year, the section that honors the great names of authors who have contributed to the artistic history of our country. There are two names that will be celebrated this year: Federico Fellini, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, through the screening of the documentary Fellini fine mai by Eugenio Cappuccio, which reveals the background of the life of the great director, and Dante Alighieri, waiting for the 700th anniversary of death, through the projection of the animated works of the director Boris Acosta, animator, scholar and enthusiast of the Divine Comedy. Finally, Halloween Special will propose the pilot of the latest extraordinary docuseries directed by Paolo Gaudio and created by Luca Ruocco on the current state of Italian horror cinema: Il Giro dell'Horror.
RAVENNA NIGHTMARE FILM FEST XVIII EDITION
From October 31 to November 8 on MYmovies.it
All the Festival films at 9,90€
